Today, Amazon announced a managed Kubernetes service called Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS). This means that all three major cloud providers—AWS, Azure, and GCP—now offer managed Kubernetes services. This is great news for Kubernetes users. Even though users always have the option to stand up their own Kubernetes clusters, and new tools like Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE) make that process even easier, cloud-managed Kubernetes installations should be the best choice for the majority of Kubernetes users. Read more

The general availability (GA) release of Rancher 2.0 draws closer by the day. In this post, we’ll explore the fine control you will have over your Rancher 2.0 deployments when you leverage the role-based access control (RBAC) that Kubernetes brings to the platform.Read more

Having a cool deployment system is pretty neat, but one thing every engineer learns one way or another is that manual processes aren’t processes, they’re chores. If you have to do something more than once, you should automate it if you can. Of course, if the task of automating the process takes longer than the total projected time you’ll spend executing the process, you shouldn’t automate it. Read more

We would like to quickly explain and address the recent metasploit module, which was created to exploit Rancher servers and Docker hosts. This is not a security issue because it only works in the following two scenarios: Read more

Attention, Ansible users! We’ve released the first version of our Ansible playbooks for Rancher. Ansible is a configuration management system that allows you to write instruction manuals it uses to manage local and remote systems. These playbooks give full control over the installation and configuration of Rancher server and agent nodes, with features that include:Read more